Publications
My academic work focuses on both clinical and research conceptualization as well as assessment of creative processes in the context of the patient-therapist relationship in two modalities: individual therapy, and mother-child and father-child dyadic therapy. I have been presenting my research and my clinical knowledge in academic seminars in Israel and abroad and also presenting at internationals conferences, workshops and academic forums.
My academic work is interdisciplinary, integrating different fields of research, such as Bibliotherapy, Writing therapy, Psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Motherhood, Trauma, Bereavement and Loss. My publications focus on clinical work in the field of bibliotherpy and parent-child dyadic therapy. My theoretical and clinical thinking integrates Relational Psychoanalysis.
Publications
Doctoral Dissertation
Rottenberg (2011). Mothers’ Writing: Israeli Mothers’ Narrative and its Expressions in Blogs. Doctoral Advisors: Shifra Schonmann and Emanuel Berman. At: University of Haifa,
Published Articles in Refereed Journals
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Rottenberg, B., Schonmann, S., & Berman, E. (2008). Dear Diary: Catharsis and Narratives of Aloneness in Adolescents’ Diaries. Enquire 2(1): 133-156.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/research/enquire/journal/vol-2/index.aspx
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Rottenberg, B., Schonmann, S., & Berman, E. (2011). Catharsis and Narratives of Aloneness in Adolescent Diaries. In-between the Words, 5 (Hebrew).
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Rottenberg, B., Schonmann, S., & Berman, E. (2017) ‘Rememory’ and Meaning: The Narrative of a Mother Giving Birth to Her Own Subjective Identity Through Weblog Writing. Journal of Poetry Therapy Vol 30(2). 84-94.
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Rottenberg, B. (2017). A bibliotherapeutic reading of alice in wonder-mother-blogging land. Journal of Poetry Therapy, Vol 30 (3). 189-199.
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Rottenberg, B. (2017). Where the wild narratives of motherhood are: The maternal development of the capacity to narrate. Practice Innovations, 2 (2), 94
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Rottenberg, B. (2022). Bibliotherapy as an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Channel. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 35(1), 27-41.
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Rottenberg, B. (2022). Developmental cross roads and how to fall down of an elephant: Bibliotherapy and Dyadic Therapy. In Vaknin, O & Ben-Zaken, S. (Eds.) Words Route-Reading and Writing as a Therapeutic Space (265-283pp) Jerusalem: Carmel publisher. (Hebrew)
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Rottenberg, B. (2024). The transitional object as a story teller. First Exhibition Catalogue of “The 7/10 Comfort Object Project”. (Hebrew)
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Rottenberg, B. (2025). Dear Luise, writing a letter as a transitional action. Community psychologist Luise Behringer. Forum Community Psychology (Forum Gemeindepsychologie), Vol. 30, Issue 1.
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Rottenberg, B. & Sterlin-Halperin, T. (2025). The Story Behind the Object: Bibliotheraputic Protocol. In Berger, R. (Ed.) Creative Art Therapies and the process of healing Collective Trauma and Loss (Digital Ebook). Kiryat Ono: Ministry of Defense and Kiryat Ono College Press and (Hebrew, English, Arabic).
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Rottenberg, B. And Sterlin-Halperin, T. (2025). An Evidence-Based Protocol for Creative Interventions Using Comfort Objects in Disaster-Affected Populations: A Framework for Healing Loss and Bereavement. (Hebrew Digital Press)
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Rottenberg, B. (2026). They were witness to everything that happened: giving voice to the comfort objects. Second Exhibition Catalogue of “The 7/10 Comfort Object Project”. (Hebrew)
Entries in Encyclopedias
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Rottenberg, B. (2010). “Suleiman, Susan Rubin.” In Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage (refereed).
Literature writing
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Rottenberg, B. (2024). My Klara. Tel Aviv: Shteim Publishers (Hebrew, In press in English, Spanish)
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences and Presentations
Invited Lectures in Israel
2012 Mothers Writing Themselves? Witnessing and Playing in Mothers’ Writing, University of Haifa, Conference: Echoes and Witnessing: Voices in Bibliotherapy.
2016 Bibliotherapy and the Capacity to Narrate, Ministry of Education Office, Kfar Saba Experienced Expressive Therapist, Matya.
2017 Maternal Subjectivity and Babies' Contributions, Minstery of Health Office, Haifa Clinical Seminar, The Public Service Center for Developmental Psychological Therapy.
2017 Decompose and Narrate: The Developmental Challenges of the Divorced Mother in Israel. University of Haifa, Faculty of Education Seminar.
2018 The Capacity to love, The Capacity to Narrate: Filling the Holes in the HeartHuman Development, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Conference: Love in the Life Span.
2018 Bibliotherapy and the Education Field, Seminar Ha'Kibutsim College, Literature Education Seminar.
2018 The Photo Album, Bibliotherapy program Case Study Seminar, University of Haifa Clinical case forum.
2019 Our Human Capacities: Creating a research and Clinical community in Israel and Germany, Seminar Ha'Kibutsim College, International Seminar about Activist Education.
2019 Falling down and standing up in the therapeutic room, Levinsky College“Mahut Center” Special education faculty.
2024 Comfort Object Project and the voice of the survivors, The Jewish Italian community.
2024 Comfort Object Project as an Act of Witnessing, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Tel Aviv Museum.
2025 The imaginary friends of the parents as a developmental engine. Parent-child therapy association, Parent-child therapy Seminar.
2026 Trauma and creativity, Comfort Object Project Bat Yam Gallery, Comfort Object Exhibition.
2026 My Klara as a second-generation narrative, Amcha Ashkelon– The Israeli Center for Mental Health and Social Support for Holocaust Survivors, Amcha Organization.
International Conferences - Held in Israel
“Rememory” and Meaning: The Narrative of a Mother Giving Birth to Her Own Subjective Identity. Tel Aviv. Fourth International Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. June, 2009
Narrators of Maternal Subjectivity: Between Maternal Self-Narratives and Maternal Child-Focused Narratives, Jerusalem. The 47th Annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. June 2016
Our Capacity to Narrate and Love in the virtual sphere. Tel Aviv. International Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. June 2019
Israeli Conferences
Expressions of Catharsis in Adolescent Diaries Tel Aviv Second Interdisciplinary Conference for Qualitative Methodologies June, 2006
The Research’s Umbilical Cord Ben-Gurion University Third Interdisciplinary Conference for Qualitative Methodologies February, 2008
A Blog of Your Own: Maternal Narrative and its Expressions in Israeli Mothers’ Blogs Bar-Ilan University Second Conference of Gender and Discourse February, 2009
Identity, Memory, and Meaning in Writing Processes in Mothers’ Blogs University of Haifa Brain, Art, and Therapy December, 2009
Co- Presenter Meeting while moving: The Gaga dancing language and the relational language. IARPP:Israeli association for relational psychoanalysis and psychotherapy Non - verbal aspects from a relational psychoanalysis perspective. January, 2023
Invited lectures and workshops abroad
2013 Resident fellow Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas Motherhood in between the Virtual and the Real: Jewish Israeli Maternal Writing from a Bibliotherapeutic Perspective.
2014 Center for Global and International Studies Seminar, University of Kansas, The Maternal Playground under Fire.
2017 Pedagogy and Human Rights Seminar, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Bibliotherapy and the Capacity to Narrate.
2017 Refuge and Asylum, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Munchen, Germany, Bibliotherapy with Asylum seekers.
2018 Social work as place of human rights, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Academy for Political Education Tutzin, Germany, Our Human Capacities: To Narrate and to Relate.
2018 Social work as place of human rights, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Narrative and Play within the therapeutic context .
2019 Shared Experience – Shared Memories, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Bibliotherapy and memory.
2025 International Seminar, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Creativity and playfulness During war time.
2026 International Seminar, Katholish Stiftungshochschule, Benediktbeuern, Germany, Collective memory, bibliotherapy and Comfort object project.
International Conferences - Held Abroad
Chair and Presenter, The Paradoxes in the Research of Mothers’ Blogs – The Need for a Playful. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry May, 2013
The Capacity to Narrate Maternal Subjectivity in the Context of Early Motherhood. Prague. The 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health June, 2016
The 'Times They are Changing’: Maternal Identity Between Risks and Resilience. Rome. 16th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health May, 2018
Where the Wild Narratives of Motherhood Are. Amsterdam, The 48th Annual conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research June, 2018
Organization of Conferences or Sessions
Panel: Infant Mental Health, Prague, The 15th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2016
Panel: Infant Mental Health, Rome,16th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, 2018
Panel: The Question of Education after Auschwitz, Haifa, Social Work and Bibliotherapy: Germany-Israel Annual meeting, 2017
Panel: The Witness Narrator: Working with Survivals , Haifa, Social Work and Bibliotherapy: Germany-Israel Annual meeting, 2018
Panel: Shared experience – shared memories, Germany, International Conference of Israeli-German Cooperation, 2019
Scholarships, Awards, and Prizes
2003 Excellence Prize, Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa.
2004 Excellence Prize for MA students, Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Haifa.
2006-2009 Graduate Studies Authority Fellowship, University of Haifa.
2013-2014 Rocket Research and Development, University of Kansas, with co-researcher: Prof. Maria F. Velasco from the art department and Prof. Ruthann Atchley from the psychology department
2014-2015 American Psychological Association Psychoanalytic Division 39’s Early Career Professional Scholar Award.
2024 Literature book “My Klara” Nominated by “Shteaim” publishers to the Sapir Prize long list.
2025 Mishkenot Sha'ananim, “The Windmill Residency Program” a unique cultural project that aims to nurture the future generation of literature in Israel, a residency for new writers. Supported by The Beracha Foundation and The Jerusalem Foundation.